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I'm gushing. The story telling is awesome, I'm IN 2016 LONDON with Strike and Ellacott right now.

The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the internet, because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves.

"Mr. Montag, you are
looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back.
I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and
out when no one would listen to the `guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting."

It didn't come from the Government down.
There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!
Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick,
thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you
are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals."

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself
alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once
in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About
something important, about something real?"